This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Mark Wisner=20 To: pianotech=20 Sent: September 17, 2001 12:00 AM My snappy retort; Nah, Dale, you aren't the booming voice I was referring to. What I = was trying to say in a light-hearted way (and what I may be mistaken = about) is that since there is a wide range of pianos to choose from, = new, used, mellow, bright, and everything in between, I assume that = folks are buying what they want. And what most people are buying are = pianos with lotsa volume and a bright sound. So I conclude that's what = most people want. Capitalism in action. As to the numbers of "S" series pianos Yamaha sells, I already told = you, one is sold for every gazillion of everything else..... 'Nother = words, I don't know...not enough, though. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- Actually, Mark, the range isn't nearly as wide as you suggest. True, = there are a gazillion pianos available with slight variations on the = hard, 'bright' sound. But there are very few new pianos on the market = with anything resembling a 'mellow' sound. Not even if you include those = that are simply 'less-hard' than the aforementioned gazillion. Besides, = just 'mellow' isn't really the same as the wonderfully dynamic piano = sound of a time now gone, is it? Over the past thirty-plus years--I can't personally speak for new pianos = any further back than that (yet)--I have seen a steady homogenizing of = piano sound toward today's hard, bright sound as an unanticipated, = undesirable and unnecessary side effect of mass production. Along with = this, even as worldwide piano manufacturing capacity has grown by = amounts undreamed of just thirty years ago and with the exception of a = few peaks here and there, there has been a steady decline in both the = number of manufacturers and in piano sales.=20 As I listen to the tales told by the owners of old pianos who, after = shopping the new piano market with great anticipation turned to = frustration, are now getting their old pianos remanufactured I have to = wonder if there is not a connection.... Yes, I do think the market is = speaking and I don't think it's ready to shut up just yet.=20 Del ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/63/c6/3c/01/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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